Balik Buhay Service Cooperative - Open House Presentation

-International Center of the Diocese of Saitama

-for the Pastoral needs of the people

-established on Feb. 13,1994 in Oyama City, Tochigi Ken

At present in Urawa-serving in Saitama, Gunma,

Tochigi and Ibaraki prefectures

• Then Urawa Diocese Bishop Peter Takeo Okada, established and ran the Open House from 1994 to 2000

Bishop Takeo Okada

Bishop MarcelinoTani Daiji

In 2000, Urawa Diocese became the Saitama Diocese under Bishop Tani Daiji. He then took over the stewardship of the Open House

Objectives:1.To respond to the

various needs of the growing

number of migrants living in the diocese.

• Needs range from spiritual, legal, moral and psychological.

Objectives:

2. To create an avenue in building and strengthening the community life of the migrants who have been and are separated from their loved ones back home.

Objectives:

3. Aims to facilitate mutual understanding and support between Japanese Community and foreign migrants.

SERVICESPastoral Care

SERVICES

Consultation

SERVICES

Medical needs

SERVICES

Information and Formation

SERVICES NetworkingNGO`S

GO`S

MEDICAL GROUPS Community –

base Groups

LEGAL GROUPS

Encounter with Migrant Families and Returnees

Encounter with Migrant Families and Returnees

• The Encounter with Migrant Families and Returnees is one of these modest efforts to bridge the gap of knowledge of the situation, understanding and love that separate the families from migrants and the migrants from their families and community when they return home after long hard years of work..

Encounter with Migrant Families and Returnees

• provided a venue for sharing and familiarization not only of the family situation in the Philippines but the working and living conditions of their loved ones in Japan. To a certain extent, it brought happiness to the families and migrant returnees, albeit temporary. It also has demonstrated that Japan, with its immense wealth and passion to create more money by pushing people to work harder,

Encounter with Migrant Families and Returnees

also has a heart after all. These are the churches, the volunteers and Japanese people who opted and continue to choose the path of listening and attending to the immediate problems encountered by migrants in Japan. Yet, in spite of this initial

Achievement, we, at the Open House also recognize that this is not and temporary.

Encounter with Migrant Families and Returnees

Somehow, Open House needs to review and perhaps come up not only with a short-term program (addressing the immediate needs) but also a long-term program that would optimize the potentials (people, talents, skills, time and resources) of everyone involve in the annual activity.

Encounter with Migrant Families and Returnees

OBJECTIVES and PROGRAM CONTENT

This annual event aims to: 

1.explain the reality of overseas contract workers in Japan to the sending families

so that they will have an objective

understanding of the conditions of their

loved ones there;

Encounter with Migrant and Returnees

• provide an alternative information and education about migration and its relationship with the Filipino people’s situation in the Philippines.

• discuss the responsibilities of the sending families to migrants and to society;

• discuss the impact of migration to the families in the Philippines, migrants family in Japan, relationship and to the society as a whole.

Encounter with Migrant Families and Returnees

• reflect on and discuss the lessons learned in the process of migration and to come up with recommendations for mutual support;

• assist migrant returnees in the re-integration process back home in the Philippines after long years of separation;

• provide avenue for Christian fellowship, faith-life sharing and community building between and amongst families of migrant workers here;

Encounter with Migrant Families and Returnees

• Since the encounter with migrants families

and returnees.

Continues formation from migrants families and returnees were held.

On several meetings the migrant’s families

and returnees decided to make a group or association in order to address all the problems of the migrant returnees thus Japan Migrants Family and Returnees

was created and registered.

Encounter with Migrant Families and Returnees

To security and exchange commission.

It was named as Japan Migrants Family and Returnees Association Inc.

But the creation of the Japan Migrants Family and Returnees Association Inc. has its own limitation. It was just a membership to the Association

Encounter with Migrant Families and Returnees

So the group thought of another way on how to do business to each members.

So the birth of Balik-Buhay Service Cooperative was organized.

It was formally registered on May 5, 2011

Under the name of Balik-Buhay Service Cooperative.

The Birth : BALIK BUHAY SERVICE COOPERATIVE

• A project, a fruit of 12 years of painstaking efforts of EMF, of unconditional support and love of the Saitama Diocese to the migrant workers

• open to all OFWs in Japan, returnees from Japan and their families

• aims to create jobs, savings and investment to optimize the good times and prepare for the bad times during migration

What is BBSC ?

Meetings of the members of the

cooperative

OFFICERS AND MEMBERS

(FR. REU GALOY,OFM)

• Efforts to raise the socio economic status of Returnees started and BALIK BUHAY SERVICE COOPERATIVE began to take shape.

the brainstorming session on forming the Balik Buhay

BP MARCELINO TANI DAIJIAND THE MEMBERS OF THE

PASTORAL TEAM

BBSC General Meeting March 24, 2013